If it's the end of the year, it must be time for end-of-the-year stuff.

The Seven Best Capers of 2008. A roundup (hey, wait ...) of criminal activity this year that showed unusual imagination. With the qualifier that the best capers of all are those that are never detected ...

Saying it wrong on purpose. An article on wordplay via mispronouncinations (<-- haha). Much of the fun is contributed in the comments. (I particularly like refrigulation machine for the fridge.) [via wishydig]

[1] Virtually everyone who moves to Seattle from anywhere that regularly gets snow experiences their first few hours of a Seattle snowstorm and asks "What's the big deal? It's just snow!" Then they discover just how pathetically unprepared we are for weather like that.